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...Colinas de Villareal Golf Club into a workers' social club, Castro and a couple of sidekicks decided to take a whack at the little white ball themselves. Castro clomped around the course in fatigues and combat boots, announced at the outset that he could beat President Kennedy. His right-hand man, "Che" Guevara, Moscow's favorite transplanted Argentine, allowed in turn that he himself was sure to beat Ike. Castro shot well over 150; Che won with a 127. Par for the course...
Since he was jumped over 84 other vice presidents to become Thompson's president in 1955, Strouse has slowly been building a younger management team to take over from Resor, Resor's wife Helen and their aging right-hand men. Two years ago the Resors were prevailed upon to sell their 51% holdings of Thompson's voting stock to the agency's profit-sharing trust fund. "They are both older now," says Strouse, "and it was decided that for the best interest of the company, the stock should be sold so that it would...
...steamships gradually superseded sailing vessels during the latter part of the 19th century, Boston's importance as a shipping port declined and the extraordinary length of Long Wharf became unnecessary. Needing additional land, the city constructed Atlantic Avenue, chopping Long Wharf in half and lopping off all but the right-hand "T" section of T Wharf...
...were there in your note?" Lysenko: "About 20." Khrushchev: "Then they read 20 pages in six months. They read slowly in the Agriculture Ministry." By then, the Agriculture Minister had already been shipped off to the Virgin Lands. His successor: Professor Mikhail Olshansky, who has been Lysenko's right-hand man ever since Lysenko established himself as the boss of Soviet genetics...
...Arkansas Senator Bill Fulbright, who was already well known to Kennedy). In others (e.g., Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara, whom Kennedy had never met), a complete dossier was ordered. As new possibilities surfaced, the FBI, as always, provided full security checks on each man, and Kennedy's right-hand man, Ted Sorensen, gave his imprimatur to the political background...